No Mans Land - Softcover

Nilesh Shrivastava

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8172344821 ISBN 13: 9788172344825

Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Land you can't burn it like money; you can't melt it like gold. You can only buy it, sell it, snatch it, grab it. Titles change, governments change, times change, but the land stays where it is unmoved and sterile. That is its beauty. But, somewhere deep down, men want to grab its immortality and slip it into their horribly insecure lives. They never can, but they never will stop trying. Gurgaon, circa 1998. A city is being born. Ordinary farms are turning into virtual goldmines in the shadow of lofty skyscrapers. Agastya, whose days are numbered, lords over one such estate. He realizes it's time to pass on the legacy to the next generationhis estranged sons, Pranay and Karan, who will come from Delhi with blemished pasts, base aspirations and a woman who would divide them. And then, not unlike the Mahabharata, the land would become the stage where their greed, affections and deepest fears would struggle and suffocate. No one would leave the place unscathed, if they would leave at all.

About this title

From the Author:

"No Man's Land" is inspired from the Mahabharata. Not transposed, not adapted, just inspired. It would be too ambitious for me to try anything else. This is a small attempt to convey the 'sense' of the epic in a contemporary plot - its moral dilemmas and ambiguities, the greyness of characters, the fatalism and eventually the power of individual choice that can attempt to override fate. An attempt that's made by mirroring some of the key characters of the epic, without restricting the writing to adapting events in the epic one by one. Hence the characters in the book have their own life and logic but hopefully their dilemmas are what may resonate beyond.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8172344821
• ISBN 13: 9788172344825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296